Position number: 003338 The University of Miami Libraries seek a dynamic and innovative librarian to help develop the Cuban Heritage Collection’s and the Libraries’ resources on Cuba and its diaspora in all formats and across all material types and to take the lead on the Collection’s research, instructional, and educational services and programs. THE UNIVERSITY : The University of [...]

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Mapping of Internationally-Funded Citizen Security Projects in Central America , a joint project of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which tracks and documents international assistance for citizen security in Central America. The Mapping Study and the online platform, the first of its [...]

The Latin American Collections in the Special & Area Studies Collections Department, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida are proud to announce the online launch of the Diario de Pernambuco , starting with the first issue on November 7, 1825 through March 1863. The Diario de Pernambuco is acknowledged as the oldest newspaper in circulation in Latin America.  The [...]

By the time I arrived in Colombia’s capital for the 2013 Bogotá Book Fair ( Filbo) the book festival had already opened its doors to the public, with a group of SALAMistas among those in attendance. A la caza de los libros noted Wisconsin’s Paloma Celis Carbajal as she joined an eager weekend crowd of book enthusiasts. [...]

  D. Ryan Lynch has an A.B. in Latin American History and Hispanic Literature and Culture from Brown University, an M.A. in Latin American History from Emory University, and is currently completing an M.S.I.S. in Library and Information Services at the University at Albany, State University of New York.  Ryan has a professional background in academic [...]

The Nominations Committee would like to extend its congratulations to our newly elected SALALM officials. El Comité de Nominaciones quiere felicitar a los nuevos representantes de SALALM.   VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT (Vicepresidente/Presidente Electo): Luis Gonzalez (Indiana University) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE (Miembros del Comité Ejecutivo): Melissa Gasparotto (Rutgers University) Sócrates Silva (University of California at Santa Barbara)   [...]

Dear Colleagues, The SALALM conference is a few weeks away.  The tentative program of the conference has been posted and we are making the final adjustments to the schedule. As you know, Gayle Williams helped me schedule the committee meetings and has adjusted them to accommodate your requests.  I agree with Gayle when she says that [...]

Jennifer Osorio is the Social Sciences and Humanities Team Leader at UCLA’s Young Research Library. She serves as the liaison to a number of departments including English and American Literature,  Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies. Since the Fall of 2011, she has also been the Interim Librarian for Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American Studies.   Jill Westen received her MLIS from the University [...]

The “Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Fifty Years of Brazilian Cinema” film series is coming to Indian University April 14-21, 2013 . The film series is part of a number of events honoring Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos at Indiana University. In 2012, dos Santos received Indiana University’s Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, the highest honor for individuals [...]

Do you assess your instruction or research classes? Not sure where to begin? Think it’s all a waste of time? You need to attend the amazingly titled “Dumb Assessment to Smart Assessment: Measuring Student Learning” workshop to be held at SALALM this year. Designed and facilitated by Anne Barnhart, AJ Johnson, Meagan Lacy and Alison Hicks, this [...]

So what happens when all that ethnographic research you did points out that students have a terrible time navigating your web page? Well if it’s the catalog or the library home page, your student may be out of luck, sadly. But if you have even a tiny bit of control over a web page, whether it’s [...]

Angela Carreño (New York University) has been awarded the Coutts Innovation Award in Electronic Resources Management  for her leadership in developing e-book models to serve both local institutions and consortia. Her efforts have also increased the availability of e-books from Spain and Latin America. ¡Felicidades, Angela! Ruby Gutierrez (HAPI) recently published an article on back-of-the-book indexing in Latin American [...]

This past January Tony Harvell retired after almost 38 years  as an information professional.  His career as a Government Documents librarian started at Ohio University in 1975, later at Miami University in Ohio.  He worked at the University of Florida (1981-1983) and later at the University of Miami (1983-1991). While at the University of Miami, [...]

Dear Friends of the Cuban Heritage Collection, We write to you to inform you of the retirements of two of the University of Miami Libraries’ most distinguished Professors and colleagues Lesbia O. Varona, Associate Professor and Esperanza B. de Varona, Professor and the Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection. Both have informed [...]

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For the last few months I have been diligently working on the organization of the SALALM conference. Before I proceed to talk about the progress I have made in organizing the conference, I would like to mention two major events that deeply affected all of us in the organization. The end of an era: Adán Benavides [...]